Antonyms for laugh
læf, lɑflaugh

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1. laughnoun

   To show mirth, satisfaction, or derision, by peculiar movement of the muscles of the face, particularly of the mouth, causing a lighting up of the face and eyes, and usually accompanied by the emission of explosive or chuckling sounds from the chest and throat; to indulge in laughter.

   Synonyms:
   chuckle, cackle, giggle, snigger, guffaw, cachinnation, snicker, titter, chortle

2. laughverb

   To be or appear cheerful, pleasant, mirthful, lively, or brilliant; to sparkle; to sport.

   Synonyms:
   joke, laughing stock

3. laughverb

   Synonyms:
   snicker, cackle, titter, chortle, chuckle, guffaw, giggle, snigger

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1. laugh

   Synonyms:
   mock at, ridicule, deride

Matched Categories

1. • Facial Expression

Princeton's WordNetRate these antonyms:4.5 / 2 votes

1. laugh, laughternoun

   the sound of laughing

   Antonyms:
   weep, cry

   Synonyms:
   laughter, jest, joke, jape, gag

2. laughnoun

   a facial expression characteristic of a person laughing

   "his face wrinkled in a silent laugh of derision"

   Antonyms:
   weep, cry

   Synonyms:
   laughter, jest, joke, jape, gag

3. joke, gag, laugh, jest, japeverb

   a humorous anecdote or remark intended to provoke laughter

   "he told a very funny joke"; "he knows a million gags"; "thanks for the laugh"; "he laughed unpleasantly at his own jest"; "even a schoolboy's jape is supposed to have some ascertainable point"

   Antonyms:
   cry, weep

   Synonyms:
   prank, muzzle, caper, trick, antic, jest, gag, laughter, joke, jocularity, put-on, jape

4. laugh, express joy, express mirthverb

   produce laughter

   Antonyms:
   weep, cry

   Synonyms:
   express joy, express mirth

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1. laughverb

   Synonyms:
   cachinnate, roar, giggle, snicker, titter, chuckle, grin, twitter, cackle, chortle, hawhaw

How to use laugh in a sentence?

1. Read MoreIf McGregor:

   It used to irritate me the way certain narratives are spread and the way words are twisted, I had to just disengage from it, when I came into the game, it used to happen and I'd just laugh it off and play up to it and do my thing. Then it just kept up going on, on, and on. It got a little much and I reacted to disrespect. But no more.

2. Christina Fontana:

   No matter what was thrown at her, she always had a smile, she was always trying to make people laugh. She always wanted to take care of the people around her. She was a very warm, loving, trusting person.

3. Scott Applewhite:

   I hope Biden does not laugh like Harris did on a serious issue.

4. Peter Dinklage:

   Until you sit down with the brother of the man who you’re playing, who is not Filipino, who’s French, and have a laugh about how crazy the world is in assuming because of how someone looks, they judge of what they must be, and here we are making a movie all about judging how you look, but people who thought they were doing the right thing were doing the exact same thing. We had a few laughs about that.

5. Egerton Smith:

   Man is the only animal with the powers of laughter, a privilege which was not bestowed on him for nothing. Let us then laugh while we may, no matter how broad the laugh may be, and despite of what the poet says about ?the loud laugh that speaks the vacant mind.? The mind should occasionally be vacant, as the land should sometimes lie fallow, and for precisely the same reason.

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